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...Teachers' Union heads, Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, were no less strong in their attack of an "attitude of mind more in harmony with the fascist philosophy of social organization than with the democratic...
Speakers on tonight's program scheduled in Emerson D at 8 o'clock include: Jack McMichael, chairman of the American Youth Congress--Lake Geneva; Thomas MacGowan, New England chief of the Maritime Union; Nathaniel Brooks, one of the students expelled from Michigan for being a "disturbing influence"; Francis O. Matthiessen, President of the Cambridge Teachers' Union; and Leo Marx, editor of the Progressive...
Professor F. O. Matthiessen offers the best possible answer to Bob Strange '41, whose "Daiquiris and Dilettantes" is an echo of the ancient cry of "indifference." This is a label Stange pins on the students and blames on both the faculty and the general mental climate in the "cultural Island" that is Harvard...
Stange's thesis is increasingly untrue, as the very inspiring Credo by the President of the Teacher's Union demonstrates. The day of the ivory tower is in its last hour-both because of the recognition by more and more faculty members (with Professor Matthiessen) that "there is no good thinking divorced the loss happy fact of war and its impact on scholarly "objectivity." In any other year Stange's article would have only a gram of truth; in this year it has not a particle...
...inaugural address before the five-year old A. F. of L. affiliate Matthiessen quoted the following passage from the Union constitution: "In affiliating with the organized labor movement we express our desire to contribute to and receive support from this powerful progressive force; to reduce the segregation of teachers from the rest of the workers . . . and increase thereby the sense of common purpose among them; and in particular to cooperate in this field in the advancement of education and resistance to all reaction...